The role of the Hudson Institute in the policy research center program was to build on and adapt current studies of the future for the purpose of assisting the Office of Education and its five pilot centers. Part 1 of this report comments briefly on some methodological and substantive issues that arose during the pilot phase and suggests how portions of the work might be continued. Parts 2-9 are papers that summarize some of the background studies. The authors and their papers are (1) Raymond D. Gastil, "Problems in Demographic Projection for Educational Policy Planning," (2) Raymond D. Gastil, "Education and Anti-Poverty Measures," (3) John Karlik, "Implications of Long-Range Economic Prospects for U.S. Education," (4) Mark Wehle, "Notes on World-Wide School Enrollment and Illiteracy to the Year 2000," (5) Richard Brown, "A Role for Higher Education in Post-Industrial Society," (6) Lottie E. Mackay, "Drugs to Improve Memory and Learning," (7) Anthony J. Wiener and Herman Kahn, "Faustian Powers and Human Choices: New Issues for the Educational System," and (8) Andrew G. Caranfil, "World-Wide Aspects of the Student Movement: A Preliminary Report on a Continuing Study of Student Movements," (HW)

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